Today has been a somewhat productive day.   I managed to convince myself, and hopefully my professor who studies fly olfaction, that flies are a sensible model system for olfaction.  I also went for a brief run and ran a massive hill 4 times to work on form, and hill climbing.  This run indicated that my [...]

Brian says: This is the best surprise I’ve ever had in a beer. I bought it thinking, Brown Shugga, it should taste like brown sugar. And then I opened it. And it was like god shit unicorns and rainbows on my universe. It was delightful. And my universe consisted only of hopfields. Rainbows and Unicorns [...]

So this one is new for us. Neither Brian nor I have had it in the past, and it just came out this year, so we’re about it find out if Bell’s can once again live up to their reputation for excellent stouts.
Brian says if this beer was a chord, it would be a Cmaj7. [...]

Ian: So Brian and I haven’t blogged Duvel before, which is kind of weird, ’cause we’ve both had it before. Tonight we remedy that.
Aroma: Sweet, light estery. A cloud of bananas and rotting fruit.
I’m not sure that sounds as delicious as this smells, but its not too far off.
Brian: As for the tasticles: light [...]

This is a beer in a series of beers that Stone as put out called the Vertical Epic series. Now, I haven’t had all of them, but I hear the ‘07 wasn’t very good. The ‘08 was amazing, however.
This year’s edition is almost a smoked porter, but made with a belgian yeast, and tangerine [...]